Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1919 — NEW DIRECTOR STATES PLANS FOR R. C. EXTENSION IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS [ARTICLE]

NEW DIRECTOR STATES PLANS FOR R. C. EXTENSION IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS

DO you know that there are 3,700 Home Service Sections now operating under the Red Cross organization In the United States. Of these, 2,900 are in places having a population under 8,000. With these facts in mind, the Bureau of Rural Organization has been created In the Red Cross Department of Civilian Relief, and Prof. E. L. Morgan, of th‘e faculty of the Massachusetts College of Agriculture, has been appointed director. In the future every Red Cross worker is to be Informed as to where the community can get help in other than Red Cross work, and will consider it part of his duty tQ connect the community with those sourcife of help. “There are numerous problems,” says Professor Morgan, “which can be met only on the basis of a county. There are a number of counties in which this sort of work has been done and the following has been the general procedure: “1. A get-together of the county-wide agencies for exchange of plans and projects and for mutual information about the work of each. “2. A % study of the county concerning the outstanding needs of the county as a whole and certain towns in particular. “3. , A conference of the people called by these various agencies. “4. The presentation by various agencies of their program of work for the coming year. "5. Some sort of medium through which the county-wide agencies may come together frequently to keep in touch with each other. “The Red Cross does not assume that it is a agency with a purpose of assembling other bodies. “It is the plan of the workers to develop rural organizations in the various Red Cross divisions as rapidly aB is feasible so that the development of the rural community, the heart and soul of country life, may be brought about” r